Ring & Pinion Pre-Load Shimming
Hello all.... I am in the middle of my dana 25 rebuild. The gears are all mint and I am just replacing seals, bearings and bearing cups. I’ve seen a million videos on the importance of setting rotational torque. My question- If I duplicate the exact shims that came out and change nothing else, will it not return to the exact location and rotational torque as previously set? If this Jeep, when finished, will only see light duty show/parade use, does this torque thing really matter?
Thank you
Tom
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Moving forward, easy question.
Well men, I did it. I’m shelving the KW axles and have sourced 2 NOS axles, along with 2 NOS knuckle seals. I really think those are cool, the 2 halves with the paper gasket, hard to find from what I understand.
This leads me to the easy question. Shouldn’t a gasket go between the knuckle and axle spindle. I’m pretty sure there is none based on axle diagrams but that seems weird to me. With all that knuckle lube sloshing around in there, that seems like a good spot for a gasket.